Questioning the Social Norms in Dostoevsky’sNotes from Underground

Abstract

This present research encourages studying“Questioning the Social Norms in Dostoevsky’sNotes from Underground”from the new historicist perspectives. Dostoevsky while describing his Russian society of during mid-nineteenth century tries to blur the distinction between normal and abnormal, able and disable, hero and anti-hero opposites by presenting underprivileged character, the Underground Man, in such a way that his activities are based on the questions on social norms. Dostoevsky also tends to create the space for the marginalized people by frequently hitting the questions in the social norms of Russian society of socio-political, socio-cultural and socio-economic situation that also can be understood from new historicist ways. Thus, this dissertation concretizes the critical sight of the protagonist as a marginalized character;his practical life and several consequences he faces are reviewed as social norms in socio-cultural, economic, political, and historical agenda.